How Well Do You Know The United States?

Jetty Newnham, ❤️

As of 2024, there are 63 U.S. National Parks.

cgrhm, It is too bad that references were not give for this, since it contradicts written descriptions in usually reliable sources. I could find not reference to India, and the designing artist's project for Egypt (to mark the Suez canal) was quite separate from that of the Statue of Liberty. The artist wanted to mark just our centennial, but also the ending of slavery in the US. (We all agree that the horrors of that institution did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation, but that does not detract from the artist's stated objective.) The project was extremely expensive, and it was an international effort to get it built, including assistance from Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel tower) to provide the inner structure, and various industrialists to provide cash. Calling the workers "slaves" is useless hyperbole. Underpaid immigrants and minorities, certainly, but I find it useless to judge a communal effort over a century ago by current standards. We do not have to reject the efforts of the past in order to mend our ways currently.

10/10 Canadian. Too easy.

9/10. Not bad for a Brit. I got the route 66 question from several readings of "On the Road". Cheers Jack Kerouac.

cgrhm, thank you for that . It's something I didn't know, and may well be useful.

Answer to number 5 is wrong. There are actually 63 national parks in the USA. Another person not checking their facts!!

The Statue of Liberty was not a gift from France. It was made by a Frenchman for India. India didn't want it as they were in the process off whitewashing their racist history. Same as Egypt. Also, it was too expensive to accept and maintain. the United States finally said "We'll take it! We're in the process of establishing Jim Crow and have no problem whitewashing our history. It was too expensive to receive and set -up. who did the work? Slaves and non=paid immigrants. " Give me your tired, your poor..."